Encinitas can’t call its recently purchased, coastal bluff top property Surfer’s Point any more because the prior owner has trademarked that name and asked that it no longer be used. And, an old nickname for the site — Hippie Hill — isn’t popular with some city residents, so Encinitas now needs to come up with a new name, Mayor Tony Kranz said Wednesday as he launched a special joint meeting between the City Council and the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission. Several audience members, who belong to Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum tribes, told the mayor and the council members that there was one perfect choice  — Panáa’o — the name their people have traditionally used for the Encinitas/Carlsbad area. Picking that name would honor the area’s first inhabitants and indicate to visitors how the property will be used, Payómkawichum artist and culture bearer Alexis Munoa Dyer told the council. Dyer is among a group of people who started a campaign months ago asking Encinitas city officials to eventually allow tribal ceremonies and the collecting of basketry supplies on the 1.43-acre site, which is on the northeast corner of Coast Highway 101 and La Costa Avenue. Council members said the naming suggestion had merit. “I’m in support of what the speakers are suggesting,” Councilmember Joy Lyndes said, adding that she wanted to do the city’s typical parks commission public engagement process, but was definitely leaning toward ultimately selecting a tribal name for the property. Kranz said he would support choosing a name “that touches and draws upon that long history of the Native American people,” while Councilmember Allison Blackwell said she didn’t know of any other city-owned spots that had been given tribal names, “and maybe this is the right time and the right place.” Councilmember Bruce Ehlers said he thought the city initially ought to establish the use for the property and then decide what its name ought to be, but said he wasn’t opposed to a Native American name or to tribal usage of the site, as long as the property also contained a coastal viewpoint spot that would be open to the general public. The council ultimately voted 4-0, with Councilmember Kellie Hinze absent, to direct the city’s parks commission to add the naming and usage issue to its annual work plan, while noting that a tribal name was the council’s preferred option. Encinitas bought the property last year for $6 million from a private developer who was proposing to put 25 timeshare condominiums on the site. City officials have said they want to restore the habitat and then preserve the area as open space. The site has beautiful views of the Pacific Ocean, Carlsbad beaches and Batiquitos Lagoon. On Wednesday, the mayor warned that it will be a while before Encinitas can embark on the habitat restoration effort. The property is adjacent to a railroad corridor and the North County Transit District is starting a four-year construction project to add a second set of railroad tracks in the area, Kranz said. In the interests of preventing additional traffic problems on the already heavily congested, western portion of La Costa Avenue, Encinitas is considering allowing railroad construction vehicles to go across the city-owned property, he said. In exchange, Encinitas may eventually gain some use of part of the railroad property once the double-tracking project concludes, the mayor said.